Oral Question·Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
“What assessment he has made of the impact of reductions to local authority budgets on the Government's Levelling Up agenda.”
Tabled: 1 March 2022Answered: 7 March 2022
Asked by
Paula Barker
Labour — Liverpool Wavertree
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Secondary Care (Karin Smyth)
We are putting the final nail in the coffin of the hon. Member’s party’s disastrous Lansley 2012 reorganisation—so bad that it made me become an MP. We are abolishing the world’s biggest quango, NHS England, along with 200 other bodies. The question is: why did the Conservatives not do that when they had the chance?